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l Letters Patent No. 77,689, dated May k5, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT 1N E EVIOE EOE PEEvENTINe-AND OUEING GEIE-Birma IN HORSES.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, GEORGE H. WHITE, of Huntington, inthe county of Suffolk, and State of New York,

have m'adc a new and useful Device for the Purpose of Preventing and Curing Crib-Bite in Horses; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the sume, reference being bad t0 tbc accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in ivhich- I l Figure 1 is a perspective view of a manger, with my device attached.

Figure 2 is a vertical cross-section of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several iigures. Y y i Many horses have the h-abit of biting the crib or manger after eating, and thereby damage the same toa considerable extent. The object of this invention is to provide self-operating means, attached tothe crib, manger, or other place, at ivhieh the horse may be fastened, for preventing such biting, and curing such habit.

The nature of the invention consists in having the manger, crib, or other place at which thehorse-may be fastened, furnished with a prominent part upon which the horsewiil bite, and in having mechanism attached to and connected with said prominent part, which -Will strike the horses jaw when he attempts to bite upon said prominent part, causing him to let go his hold, and in course of time curing him of the habit of so biting.

'Io enable others skilled in theart to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe itsconstrue. tion and operation. I

A, on the drawing annexed, represents an ordinary manger-box, in which the horsefs food is placed. Along l .the side, B, of the same, I arrange a rectangular bar, C, so that it projects above the top edge of the sides of the manger A, thereby leading' and causing the horse, when he attempts tofbite, to bite vupon it, said bar C. Instead of immovably fixing said bar G, I employ a vertical guide-box, D, at each end oi'- the bar, which covers Y and ysurrounds such end at all but. its lowerside, where it is open', and made'to allow the bar to' slide freely up or down in it. The sides E E, oi' the guide-boxes D D, which eover'the ends ofthe bar C, are made to project down into vthe box A, as shown, so as to secure the same, by means of wood-screws or bolts,lto the inner -sides ofthe end pieces ot' the box A;v' and to lprov-ide for thebar C moving freely insaid boEesD I), I employ 'friction-rollers, F F, with their bearings in the sides E E, and friction-rollersG G G" G', to Work on the sides of the bar C, of whichv the rollers G G are located lower down than the rollers G G, for the purpose of providing for lthe easy sliding of Ithe bar C, in case of same beingtwisted or turned by the horses bite.

New, in order to cau-se the horse to let go his bite on the bar- C, and to eure such habitof biting, I employ a secondarybar, II, which countcrbalanees the bar C, being securedv on the arms of two levers, I I, having their fulera at J J, and the bar C, havingvertical paula', K K, rest-ingiu notches, L L, made in the short arms of the said levers I I. '.lhe pawls K K being hinged to the bottom side of the bar C,.yield to the motion of the levers I I. New the levers I I are ct' sniiicien't length so that the bar H'rises above the bar C, whenever the.

bar C is depressed,as shown by colored lines en iig'.I 2, and so strikes `the horsesijaw as soon as he attempts to bite on the bar C, and depresses it, so causing the horse to let go his hold, and in course of time to abandon the habit of biting. l.

Instead of using the described device u'ith'a manger vor crib, it may be so constructed as' to be used at a post or other bitching-place of horses. f I i What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The device herein shown, attached to the manger orl any place where the lhorse may be fastened, and to operate by the motion caused by the biting of' the horse, substantially as and for the purpose herein shown.

v v GEO. I-I. WHITE. Witnesses:

' R. BACKLEE,4v

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